Posada Amazonas Birding Tour – Amazon Rainforest

This morning, you’ll go on a hike to the impressive 42-meter Canopy Tower, equipped with a banister staircase for your safe access to the platforms above, providing you with a unique perspective on your Amazon birding experience—the forest canopy. Here, you’ll patiently await the appearance of a canopy mixed flock, predominantly featuring tanagers like Paradise Tanager, Green-and-gold Tanager, Flame-crested Tanager, Turquoise Tanager, Opal-rumped Tanager, and others. The tower also offers excellent opportunities to spot Cream-colored Woodpecker, Gilded Barbet, Plum-throated Cotinga, and Striolated Puffbird. Keep an eye out for macaws and toucans gracefully flying on the horizon, including Chestnut-eared, Lettered, Emerald, Curl-crested, and Brown-mandible Aracaries. You might even catch sight of solitary raptors riding the thermals, providing a rare chance for hawk-eagles and possibly even harpy eagles!

A short twenty-minute walk from Posada Amazonas brings you to the parrot clay lick. From a blind positioned approximately twenty meters away, witness dozens of parrots and parakeets descending on most clear mornings to indulge in the clay on a riverbank. Species such as Mealy and Yellow-headed Amazon, Blue-headed Parrot, and Dusky-headed Parakeet frequent this clay lick, which is most active at dawn, late mornings, and mid-afternoon.

In the afternoon, we’ll continue along the Shahue Trail, known for sightings of Fiery-capped Manakin, Round-tailed Manakin, Pale Rumped Trumpeteer, and Pavonine Quetzal.

Where you will be staying: Posada Amazonas

Today, you will start the day with a fifteen-minute boat ride to explore the bamboo patches around Tres Chimbadas Lake. Instead of focusing on lake birding, we will be looking for bamboo targets found here. We will be keeping an eye out for the endemic White-cheeked Tody-Tyrant, Peruvian Recurvebill, Red-billed Scythebill, Rufous-headed Woodpecker, Rufous-breasted Piculet, Brown-rumped Foliage Gleaner, Large-headed Flatbill, Dusky-tailed Flatbill, Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner, Flammulated Bamboo-tyrant, Dot-winged and Ornate Antwren, White-lined Antbird, Rufous-capped Nunlet, Pheasant Cuckoo, and Striped Cuckoo.

In the afternoon, we’ll do some on-foot birding on the Shije’eje Trail, where it will give us the opportunity to spot the Variegated Tinamou, Blue-crowned and Rufous Motmot, Golden-crowned Spadebill, Curl-crested Aracari, and various species within mixed flocks. A small clay lick in the area attracts Dusky-headed and Black-capped parakeets, along with Cobalt-winged Parrotlets, a highlight of the day.

Where you will be staying: Posada Amazonas

This morning, we take another boat ride and a walk that will lead us to Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake, characterized by palm swamps and grassland vegetation. Our aim today is to spot a variety of target species, including Pale-vented Pigeons, Azure Gallinule, Purple Gallinule, Slender-billed and Snail Kites, Rufescent Tiger-Herons, Sungrebe, Green Ibis, Gray-breasted Crake, Rufous-sided Crake, and two iconic Amazonian species: Horned Screamers and Hoatzin.

We will also be exploring the secondary forest, shaped by various processes like selective logging recovery and slash-and-burn agriculture reclamation, allows us to focus on species adapted to this environment. Such targets include Barred Antshrike, Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant, Streaked Flycatcher, Boat-billed Flycatcher, Solitary Black Cacique, Gray-fronted Dove, Ruddy Ground-Dove, as well as many others.

As evening falls, we’ll take a night walk near the lodge, which will provide us with opportunities to spotlight the Pauraque, Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl, Great Potoo, Long-tailed Potoo, Ocellated Poorwill, and, with luck, a sighting of Mottled Owl or Crested Owl. Additionally, macro photography enthusiasts can capture shots of American Bullfrogs, Horned Frogs, and tree frogs, among others.

As the expedition concludes, it’s time to bid farewell. Your visit will have made a direct contribution to the Native Community of Infierno in their ongoing efforts to protect Tambopata. We’ll now embark back to the city, heading to the airport for your international flight onwards.